Ombudsmen And Others, Citizens' Protectors in Nine Countries.
Gelhorn, Walter, [1906-1995]. Ombudsmen and Others. Citizens' Protectors in Nine Countries. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967. xvi, 448 pp. Publisher's green cloth with gilt stamped spine. Moderate shelfwear. Ex-library with ink shelf location label to foot of spine. Property stamp to verso title page. Bookplate of San Francisco College for Women to front pastedown. Card pocket to rear pastedown. Date to slip to rear free endpaper. Dust jacket flaps tipped-in to front free endpaper, otherwise internally clean. A good copy. $35. * Gellhorn conducted extensive research, including personal interviews and reviews of official records, to analyze the ombudsman systems or similar grievance procedures in the nine nations of Denmark, Finland, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Sweden, The Soviet Union (USSR), Yugoslavia. The author argues that the ombudsman should supplement, rather than replace, existing methods of administrative review, such as judicial review or agency self-criticism. At the time of publication, the book provided some of the first collected reports on grievance procedures in communist countries like the USSR, Poland, and Yugoslavia.
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